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...Hawthorne's death, his son Julian paid a brief visit to the aging, little-known Melville in New York. Intent on gathering material for his biography of his parents, Julian asked Melville for recollections about his relationship with Hawthorne senior. Melville seemed reluctant to discuss the matter, and sadly shook his head when Julian encouraged him to describe his visits to the Hawthorne home. In the course of their conversation, however, the author made one puzzling remark: "He was convinced Hawthorne had all his life concealed some great secret, which would, were it known, explain all the mysteries...
...Soviet Union is heaping new honors on John Reed '10, author of "Ten Days That Shook the World," a famous eyewitness account of the Bolshevik revolution...
...Days That Shook the World," a highly sympathetic treatment of the revolution, attracted glowing praise from Lenin, who wrote in a preface to the book's first edition in 1923, "Unreservedly I recommend it to the workers of the world...a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant...to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, said yesterday "Ten Days That Shook the World" is "a highly romantic account without much relationship to reality." The Soviet government uses Reed today as a "good name, a foreigner, just about the only one at the time sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause," Pipes added...
...reining himself in during the rest of the campaign, serious damage has already been done. Reagan has long since learned how deftly to return the President's bombs to the sender. After Carter's Chicago attack, Reagan looked at the television cameras in a Pennsylvania hotel hallway, shook his head as if he had been let down by his best friend, and confessed to being "saddened that anyone-particularly someone who has held that position-could intimate such a thing...